Saturday, September 27, 2008

Nagasaki

This picture reminds us World War 2. At that time, two major countries were invading the other countries. They are Germany and Japan. Germany conquered European countries, its neighboring countries. Japan conquered Asia. Germans are known as Nazi and Japaneses are known as fascists. However, this picture shows about Japanese' loss. United States dropped a nuclear bomb which is called Fat Man. It killed thousands of people. It was became like that because at the first place, Japan attacked Pearl Habor, United States, without declaration. Japanese destroyed so many ships and also killed their people. Moreover, Japan was conquering the Asia which caused World War 2 in some ways. Futhermore, Japan was the alliance of Germany. Fat Man, destroyed the whole Nagasaki. People, today, who are the generation of those who killed by the atomic bomb are suffering. It is because the radiation released from the bomb is too powerful.

American Football

This is American Football. Most of the people see it as a weird game. Yes, it is kind of weird but it is also interesting. It is similar to Rugby. However, in Rugby, you can pass the ball as many times as you want but in American Football, you can pass only four times. Rugby does not allow foward pass but American Football does. It also plays with eleven players in each team. You would see violents, almost in the whole game. It is because this game has a lot of physical contacts. If you are not strong enough, you should not play this game. As you can see in the picture, the guy wearing white jersey was tackled by black jersey guy to clear the way for the guy who holding the ball. Another thing is they call it American Football. However, almost the whole game, they play with hand. That is why people see it as a weird game. Because of this game, there is a another word, soccer, for football(UK) to ensure there is no confusion between the two games.

Barack Obama


Do you know who is the man talking in the picture? He is Barack Obama, senator of Democratic party from United States. There is a signboard 'Change We Can Believe In'. The people behind him those same signboards. They are supporting Barack Obama. This picture was taken when he was giving a speech. They were under the sun as we can see. People are listening him carefully. Most of them are smiling and it shows that they like his talk. One word, Mr.Obama always uses is 'HOPE'. He has published a book called The Audacity of Hope. He is an ambitious man. He is ambitions are for United States and poor countries. He won almost every votes. Although he is just 46 years old, he has the abilities to lead United States and save the world. He is someone the United States really needs and also the whole world. He said that he would stop Iraq war. He does not oppose all wars but he opposes dumb wars.

World Trade Center

All of you know what this picture is. Once which was known as the tallest bulidings in the world. This is world trade centre. It is also known as Twin Towers. We can see two burning towers in the picture. It reminds us the day, September 11. This simply shows the threat of terrorism. It is because that was done by terrorists. They killed so many innocent people. Many lives were lost without any reasons. It was just because they hate United States. They even sacrificed their own lives to kill innocent people. They attacked the two towers by airplanes. So, not only the people who were in the building died. All passengers in the planes were killed too. They are extreme. There are other terrorisms in different part of world. All of us really should be vigilant. September 11 is unforgettable day. This also says that we should never harm anybody just because of our hatred.

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Alexander The Great


Let's make a good guess about this picture. Who is the person riding the horse? We all know him very well. He is Alexander The Great. This is just a painting of him. We will have a very great impression by looking at his expression and position. The way he holds his sword in the picture is normally done by the warriors who won the battle. So, from the picture, we can say that he was a successful warrior. Yes, he was. There is an honorable history about him and wicked battles he had succeeded. He was one of the most successful military commanders of all time and is presumed undefeated in battle. He is the youngest general in the history. He was born in Macedonia and died at Babylon. He died at the age of 32. 32 years old is really young. Yet, he had conquered other strong countries and built a huge empire. I would like to share one of his quotes. It is "I'm not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep. I'm afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion".

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

A classroom of Finnish School

Do you all know what is this picture? This is a picture of a classroom in Finland. The room is very clean and small. There are only 25 to 30 students in one class. We can see the wooden desks and chairs. It is because in Finland, 77 percent of the land is covered by forests. Thus, they use more wooden furnitures than plastic ones. There is a notice board at the back of the class. So, students can post their works on there. They do have a cupboard at the corner. On the extreme right bottom of the picture, you can see a white color thing. It is actually a heater. Finland is a Temperate country and very near to Artic region. So that, temperature in winter is -25`C and in summer, it is about 20`C.

Monday, September 22, 2008

Inn Lay


This is Inn Lay, Myanmar. The meaning of Inn Lay is small lake. But Inn Lay is actually big. We call it as a long lake because it is about 13 miles long. One of the tribes live there. They build their house on the water. They make their plantation on the water. The spend their whole lives living there. It is like a small town. Inn Lay has boats market, a monastery, pagodas and restaurants. Boats market is a market but their stores are their boats. They bring whatever items or grocers they want to sell and row the boats around that area. This photo is one of the beautiful view I took there while I was sitting on the boat. Boats are the only transportation in Inn Lay.